This workshop-style session is intended to build upon the tools that mentors have acquired during the first two sessions. A primary goal is to strengthen confidence in reading, naming, opposing and replacing gendered racism that impacts Black women faculty and students and can derail their success.
Black Women United, part of ADVANCE’s Mutual Mentoring Grant Award program and Black Women Faculty, is an initiative that seeks to build and maintain a network of Black women peers and increase the advancement of faculty and drive institutional transformation to create environments where diversity is encouraged and supported. Last year, Black Women United worked to develop community among tenure-track and non-tenure track Black women and librarians. To grow and carry forward the program’s work, Black Women United now looks to expand its on-campus network to include Black women who work in staff and administrative positions at UMass Amherst, as well as continuing to connect with Black women who are new additions to the campus.